By Jess Lomas May 28, 2014 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. Hey, whatever. It […]
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Art attack – The Monuments Men review
March 11, 2014 
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By Simon Miraudo March 11, 2014 One day we’ll discover George Clooney is actually a long-forgotten screen idol from Hollywood’s golden age who became unstuck from time, and all of this will make total sense. Every few years, presumably when his nostalgia gland swells up and commands him to drain its contents onto celluloid, Clooney […]
Continue readingThe Top 10 Male Performances of 2013
December 10, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo December 10, 2013 Spoiler alert: James Franco will top this list. Question is, for what? The divisive overachiever appeared in – and I am not sh***ing you – at least 13 movies this past year, not including his stint on The Mindy Project, his Comedy Central Roast, and that Kanye West spoof […]
Continue readingMatt Damon joins Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
August 30, 2013 0 Comments
Matt Damon is a late addition to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s currently-shooting sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar, Variety reports. As the film started production in early August, we assume Damon to be taking on a relatively small role. He joins an already epic cast containing Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck, Topher Grace, Wes […]
Continue readingSlumming it – Elysium review
August 12, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo August 12, 2013 On the futuristic space station Elysium, there is no illness, thanks to miraculous DNA-reconstruction technology, and no poverty, because only the wealthiest one per-cent of people can afford a ticket to get there. However, if we’ve learnt anything from the Real Housewives franchise, in a highly concentrated population of […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Monuments Men
August 9, 2013 0 Comments
George Clooney takes another stab at Oscar with his World War 2 flick, The Monuments Men. The trailer for his latest directorial effort arrives with the blockbuster season finally at an end, and awards season on the horizon. Based on a remarkable true tale, it stars Clooney as the Danny Ocean of the Allied forces, […]
Continue readingAnother Bourne movie set in motion by Universal
August 5, 2013 0 Comments
Universal have set the wheels in motion for another Bourne movie, Deadline reports. The studio has hired Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes) to start writing a script that will continue the story of Aaron Cross, the chems-loving assassin played by Jeremy Renner in The Bourne Legacy. It is unknown if Matt Damon will finally return to […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Behind the Candelabra review
June 13, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 13, 2013 Crossing the Rubicon of wealth and fame must be a hell of a thing. Michael Jackson arguably lived the strangest life in human history. Tom Cruise enjoys the dual pleasure of being Hollywood’s most bankable star, and perhaps the one famous person everyone is really unsettled by. Kanye West’s […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Behind The Candelabra
April 11, 2013 0 Comments
The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s final (for now) feature film, a HBO production called Behind The Candelabra, recently went live and it’s as garishly flamboyant as we had hoped. Based on a true story, the film chronicles a strange romance between the aging pianist Liberace (played with magnificent style by Michael Douglas) and his young […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: Elysium
April 9, 2013 0 Comments
The first official poster for Elysium, Neill Blomkamp’s long-awaited follow-up to District 9, has arrived online. The flick stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Though the plot has been kept under wraps for a number of years, a new synopsis gives us a good idea of what to expect. “In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: […]
Continue readingMore beautiful – Margaret: Extended Cut review
October 16, 2012 0 Comments
Margaret: Extended Cut – Starring Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, and Jeannie Berlin. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Before being granted a theatrical release in Australia, Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret screened on international Qantas flights; a comically fitting yet wildly unfair outlet to complement the feature’s pitiful roll-out in a handful of American cinemas […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Promised Land
September 24, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Gus Van Sant‘s new drama – and definite Oscar contender – Promised Land has arrived, starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski. Damon and Krasinski collaborated on the screenplay for this fracking feature, the most high-profile depiction of the controversial subject since Josh Fox‘s Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland. A corporate salesman (Damon) works at convincing a struggling […]
Continue readingThe spy who replaced me – The Bourne Legacy review
August 14, 2012 3 Comments
The Bourne Legacy – Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, and Edward Norton. Directed by Tony Gilroy. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. “There was never just one,” the posters for The Bourne Legacy tease. They refer to the members of the CIA’s hush-hush Treadstone program, of which forgetful super-spy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), was, well, born from. […]
Continue readingMourning glory – Margaret review
August 7, 2012 0 Comments
Margaret – Starring Anna Paquin, Jeannie Berlin, and J. Smith Cameron. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Rated MA. Originally published June 11, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Margaret arrives on DVD in Australia August 8, 2012 October 17, 2012. The DVD also comes with an Extended Cut, though this review is of the Theatrical Cut. There might not be a sadder cinematic story than that […]
Continue readingMourning glory – Margaret review
June 11, 2012 0 Comments
Margaret – Starring Anna Paquin, Jeannie Berlin, and J. Smith Cameron. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. There might not be a sadder cinematic story than that of Margaret. I’m not specifically referring to the film’s contents, though it is indeed sad, and haunting, and beautiful, and brilliant (we’ll get to that […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Bourne Legacy
June 1, 2012 0 Comments
The feature trailer for the Bourne movie without Bourne – The Bourne Legacy – has arrived online. Reminding us that “there was never just one,” the teaser offers us a better, unobstructed glimpse of genetically-modified assassin Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), who must go on the run when the shady Treadstone agency decides to cleanse their ranks. Though original franchise […]
Continue readingTalk to the animals – We Bought a Zoo review
April 30, 2012 0 Comments
We Bought a Zoo – Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Rated PG. Originally published December 20, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. We Bought a Zoo arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia May 2, 2012. If you had hoped writer-director Cameron Crowe would return from his six-year hiatus having shed the demons of Elizabethtown, well, I’ve got some bad news […]
Continue readingIt’s a sick, sick, sick, sick world – Contagion review
February 29, 2012 0 Comments
Contagion – Starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. Originally published October 19, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Contagion is the last movie you want to see with a sore throat. Or maybe it’s the first movie you want to see with a sore throat. What could possibly top the sensory, 4-D, cinema-going experience of feeling your tonsils swell […]
Continue readingTeaser and Poster Debut: The Bourne Legacy
February 9, 2012 0 Comments
Bourne is back! Kinda! Although Matt Damon is nowhere to be seen in the brand new teaser for The Bourne Legacy, we have a bruised and battered Jeremy Renner signing up for the same super-spy program that turned Jason Bourne into a killing machine. There isn’t much in the trailer that isn’t obscured by black […]
Continue readingYour 2011 Boxing Day Viewing Guide
December 23, 2011 0 Comments
Your 2011 Boxing Day Viewing Guide. By Simon Miraudo. In case you couldn’t tell by the fact a bajillion movies are coming out this week, Boxing Day is kind of a big deal for Australian film-lovers. In fact, December 26th is the biggest day on the cinema-going calendar. What is it about that post-Christmas comedown […]
Continue readingTalk to the animals – We Bought a Zoo review
December 20, 2011 1 Comment
We Bought a Zoo – Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. If you had hoped writer-director Cameron Crowe would return from his six-year hiatus having shed the demons of Elizabethtown, well, I’ve got some bad news for you: We Bought a Zoo is […]
Continue readingSteven Soderbergh abandons The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
November 18, 2011 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s retirement date just got a little bit closer. The director has reportedly walked away from Warner Bros’ film adaptation of the 1960s spy show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. According to Indiewire, his decision was the result of WB’s indecisiveness and what he believed to be a lack of commitment to the project. George […]
Continue readingDamon and Affleck reunite for mobster movie
October 26, 2011 0 Comments
It’s easy to forget Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are Oscar winning screenwriters. Their Good Will Hunting collaboration seems so long ago; since then, there have been Bournes and Giglis, not to mention the whole I’m ******* Matt Damon and I’m ******* Ben Affleck song war. The duo is set to collaborate once more on a film based on […]
Continue readingBradley Cooper to join Soderbergh’s Man from U.N.C.L.E.
October 24, 2011 0 Comments
Following the exit of his boy George Clooney back in August, Steven Soderbergh has been on a manhunt to find a star for his adaptation of the 1960s spy show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Variety reports Soderbergh has settled on Bradley Cooper to play charming espionage agent Napoleon Solo. Although Soderbergh’s currently working on male […]
Continue readingMatt Damon and John Krasinski co-wrote a movie
October 20, 2011 0 Comments
… and Matt Damon‘s going to direct it! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damon has set up the untitled project at Warner Bros. John Krasinski will star in the film. Although details are scant, it involves a town being poisoned, a’la Erin Brockovich. News of the Oscar winner and Office star’s collaboration emerged back in […]
Continue readingIt’s a sick, sick, sick, sick world – Contagion review
October 19, 2011 0 Comments
Contagion – Starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Contagion is the last movie you want to see with a sore throat. Or maybe it’s the first movie you want to see with a sore throat. What could possibly top the sensory, 4-D, cinema-going experience […]
Continue readingThe Departed screenwriter discusses potential sequel
October 18, 2011 0 Comments
Martin Scorsese‘s Best Picture winner The Departed is based on the Hong Kong crime classic Infernal Affairs. Considering Infernal Affairs is followed by two sequels, rumours of another instalment of The Departed have lingered since its release in 2006. There has been, of course, one giant obstacle in the way of continuing the saga … (SPOILERS […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: We Bought A Zoo
September 15, 2011 3 Comments
The trailer for Cameron Crowe’s new movie We Bought A Zoo has debuted online, and it is perhaps the Cameron Crowe-iest trailer ever made. A man quitting his job in spectacular fashion? Check. A best friend offering sage advice to the main character, and imploring him to embrace the joy and wonder of life? Check. […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: Contagion
August 11, 2011 2 Comments
So, ahem, PANIC! The posters for Steven Soderbergh‘s viral outbreak thriller Contagion have debuted online, and they certainly don’t instil calm. The six major character posters capitalise on the all-star cast, specifically Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet (we’ll just have to hope co-stars John Hawkes and Bryan Cranston will get their own in the near future). To see […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Happy Feet Two
July 28, 2011 0 Comments
A new trailer for Happy Feet Two has arrived online. Although it recycles much of the footage seen in the original teaser, it offers us a slightly better look at the film’s plot. Slightly. Happy Feet Two focuses on the son of Mumble (Elijah Wood), a teensy penguin named Erik. According to the official plot synopsis… […]
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